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Faculty Confidence in Online Learning Grows

Survey finds significant increases in professors' confidence in virtual learning and their sense of support from their colleges -- but continuing concerns about equity for underrepresented students.
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Needed: A New Rehearsal Space for Democracy

General education represents the best and last chance for students to debate broad human problems, yet far too few institutions are giving them the opportunity, argue Andrew Delbanco and Jon Parrish Peede.
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Meeting the Instructional Challenge of Distance Education

Alexander Astin outlines some specific pedagogical practices that might enhance student involvement online and warns against a course content approach.

New Programs: Ethnic and Race Studies, Actuarial Science, Marketing, Music Technology, Global Affairs and Business

California Lutheran University is starting a major in ethnic and race studies. East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania is starting an...
Opinion

Arts Curriculum for the Actual Arts Economy

The pandemic has turned the spotlight onto what was an already glaring problem: what we've been teaching our arts students hasn't fully prepared them, argues Eric J. Lapin.
Opinion

Reimagining Service Learning in the Digital Age

An ideal education in 2020 will give students the tools -- both physical and digital -- to work with their neighbors to improve the lived circumstances in their communities, writes Laken Brooks.

New Programs: Organizational Leadership, Counselor Education, Health and Wellness, Therapeutic Yoga, Interdisciplinary Data Science, Cybersecurity

Chowan University is starting a master of arts in organizational leadership. Denver Seminary is starting a Ph.D. in counselor education...

A Different Way to Deliver Student Feedback

Andrew L. Gillen, an instructor who predominantly teaches STEM classes, offers some effective lessons he's learned from the performing arts.